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P^ge 6 January 12, 2011 Spily^y Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Challenge a great way to get in shape for spring For those considering taking part -in the com m unity get- health y program — the 2011 Moving Mountains Slimdown Challenge— decision time is fast approaching. Last year’s challenge was a huge success as 339 people signed up to lose weight and get healthier. This year’s event kicks off soon, on Wednesday, Jan. 19. The initial weigh-ins will be held at the Warm Springs Dia betes Prevention Building on Jan. 19, 20, 21 and 22; and at Mountain View Hospital on Jan. 22 . The w eigh -in tim es for Wednesday through Friday will be from 8 to 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., then from 4 to 6 p.m. On Saturday, Jan. 22, weigh-ins will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on at the hospi tal. The post-event weigh-ins will be May 5, 6 and 7. /M ^ The event is open to all Jefferson County residents ages 18 and older. Along with the in dividual competitions, entrants can join four-person teams in three categories: women, men, and mixed (two each). Team participants are also eligible to win individual payouts as well. Event organizers have made a few changes from last year, including how the prize money will be awarded. This year, the top five places in the men’s and w om en’s events w ill receive cash awards, along with the top three men’s, women’s and mixed teams. Last year, only the top three individuals and the top teams received pay. entry ^ee fee *s is $30, $25 of The entt7 which will go directly to a prize money pool for the entrant’s categories. Entrants will also get a T-shirt this year. The participants are m ea sured in three catego ries— weight, waist measurement and hip measurement—and the win ners are based on their individual percentage of loss in each cat egory, not total pounds and inches lost. The goal of Moving Moun tains is to challenge the entire countywide community to live healthier lives, to transform a contest commitment into lifelong habits. During the run of the event, weekly nutrition and/or exercise program s— ranging from Zumba to w ater aero bics—are offered at no charge to Moving Mountains partici pants. This year, organizers have established what they refer to as the No Yo-Yo rule. All those Boxing at Kah-Nee-Ta who were money winners last year (a total of 18 entrants) who have gained more than 20 per cent of the weight they lost dur ing last year’s event are not al lowed to participate in the 2011 event. So, if you were in the money last year and have gained back over 20 percent of what you lost, you have until mid- January to get back down un der that 20 percent mark if you want to participate this year. The M oving M ountains Slimdown Challenge is spon sored by Mountain View Hos pital, Jefferson County Health Department, Warm Springs Dia betes Prevention Program, the Madras Aquatic Center and the Madras Pioneer. For further in fo rm atio n , co n tact C arolyn H arvey at the Jefferso n County H ealth D epartm ent (541-475-4456) or B e th A nn B e a m e r at M o u n ta in V iew H o s p ita l (541-460-4023). The Warm Springs Box ing Club w ill host USA Box ing at Kah- Nee-Ta on Fri day, Jan. 29. This is the kick-off event for the 2011 box Sponsored by the Warm Springs Boxing Club. New training hours for boxing The Warm Springs Nation Boxing Club has new train ing hours at the gymnasium. For grad e school and m iddle school boxers, the hours are from 4-6 p.m. weekdays. For high school and up, the Two nutritionists join staff at Health and Wellness B y Terri H arber S pilyay Tymoo The Warm Springs Tribes have two new nutritionists work ing out o f the H ealth and Wellness Center. Linda Porter, hired in No vember, focuses on overall nu trition. She has worked for vari ous tribes throughout the north west and, received her training through Oregon State Univer sity. “Nutrition is a changing sci ence,” Porter said. “We try to stay on top of the new stuff.” One thing she is considering as outreach to tribal members: a class about how to best shop if you can only go tw ice a month. This is a reality for some people living on the reservation. N ot everyone is licensed to drive or has access to a car. They need to take a bus or get a ride from a friend or relative and can’t get access to food very often. So they buy items that have a long shelf life-—and this Nutritionists Linda Porterand Roopa Puri. can translate into unhealthy eat ing if the choices aren’t made wisely, she said. Porter also wants to help people learn how to keep healthy foods longer through freezing, preservation and de hydration so they can get the m ost health-w ise from their shopping trips. O ther areas she can help people with include healthy Horse summit: (Continued from page 1) Smith is a lifelong horseman who understands the time and expense necessary for taking care of horses for rodeo, stock and racing. While there are thou sands of feral horses living year- round on the reservation, the poor regional economy is con tributing to the problem. “People are getting into a bind because they can’t afford hay, feed and housing for their horses,” he said. “So they are just dumping their horses.” These free-roaming horses— many of which feral but roam ing alongside an increasing num ber of abandoned ones—are at least partly to blame for a slew o f problem s on the W arm Springs Reservation. The de crease in numbers of deer and elk mating pairs likely is exacer bated by the horses. It’s a lim ited amount of food available to all of these four-legged ani mals within areas they find suit able. And the problem s horses cause to other resources affect the entire ecosystem. They over graze and leave weeds that grow uncontrollably into waterways. This hurts fish, cattle and, in turn, the tribal members who depend on the land, say Smith and others in the tribes’ Natu ral Resources Department. ‘It’s quite a challenge,” he said of the constant balancing act. Terri Harber/Spilyay cooking, juicing, and meal and menu planning. And to work with personnel at the jail, for example, to make food served there healthier and more palat able. Roopa Puri was born in Ma dras and also is an Oregon State University graduate. She worked in Portland in a geriatric-psychi atric nursing home that served patients with such problems as A lzheim er’s. She recently re turned to the area. She will work with the Women, Children and Infants Program to help this seg ment of the population improve their eating habits and, in turn, their health. “It all starts with the moth ers,” Puri said. “They are very important.” Puri seeks to highlight ways to curb poor eating and weight issues with which mothers and children contend— and the ill nesses that rise from obesity and an unhealthy diet. Both new employees would like to spread knowledge about from where food originates. They would like to do this through gardening. Puri wants to see children enrolled in classes at Early Childhood Education learn how to garden, foe ex ample. The ch ild ren “ can learn where food comes from and how and what it is,” she said. For details, contact Porter or Puri at 541-553-1196. ing season. The bouts start at 6 p.m. A dm issio n is $12 for adults and $8 for stu dents. Seniors, $5. Kids under 8 are free. hours are from 6:30-9 p.m. weekdays. For more information, or to leave a message for box ing coach A ustin Sm ith, please call the Community Center at 541-553-3243. Fish hatchery demolition ends ninety-six year history BUTTE FALLS, Ore. (AP) - Oregon fish managers are using bulldozers and concrete break ers this week as' they move for ward with the unprecedented task of demolishing a state-run fish hatchery. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crews have begun knocking down the concrete walls at the Butte Falls Hatch ery and filling in the 8-foot-deep ponds as the agency prepares to divest itself of the 96-year-old facility plagued by budget cuts, disease and a maintenance back log. Demolition of the ponds, in which tens o f m illions of salmon and trout were raised, rem oves the p o ssib ility o f people or pets falling in the abandoned ponds w hile the agency looks to transfer the property to another governmen tal agency. “It’s uncharted ground for us,” says Russ Stauff, ODFW’s Rogue W atershed m anager. “We've never done this before, so it's a bit of a work in progress. “None of these guys are en joying this. It's difficult to come out to a facility and do this.” Civic leaders in this mountain town rimmed by industrial for estland say they are sad to see the demolition of what was the state's third-oldest hatchery and home to an earthen pond where kids fished for stocked trout. Warm Springs, other tribes experiencing horse population problems “My concern is to take care of the natural resources—water, fisheries, soils, range.” The tribes are in the middle of updating the Integrated Re sources Management Plan for range and forest. A variety of matters are taken into account within the plan, including how some conditions or changes might affect hunters, certain animals and even the tribes’ moneymaking endeavors. Other tribes, including the Yakamas and Umatillas who had speakers at the summit, are suf fering from similar horse-related problems. This is why the Bu reau of Indian Affairs is financ ing research into whether it would be viable to open a horse processing plant on tribal lands. The Warm Springs Tribal Council allowed for the even tual creation of a horse meat processing plant back in 2009, but never had a fully realized operating plan. Focus of it was to be on p ro cessin g o f horsemeat for pet food. Public ire surfaced w hen a rep o rt stated that the tribe already was moving forward with a project, according to previous reports. A Humane Society executive noted that winning over people in the U.S. about this issue will be difficult. A poll conducted for American Wild Horse Preven tion campaign and the Ameri can Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals found that nearly 2 out of 3 Ameri cans, 62 percent, oppose the slaughter of U.S. domestic and wild horses for human con sumption overseas. Slaughter for other purposes, such as for pet food, wasn’t part of the survey. “Horses are not food in this country, they are our compan ions,” said Scott Beckstead, the Humane Society’s Oregon direc tor. “It’s tragic people are talking about slaughter as the only means because horse slaughter is cruel. Any individual or group that would do it runs real risk of invoking fury from the vast majority of Americans,” he also said. B eckstead w atch ed the Warm Springs 2009 horse sale and met with tribal representa tives at the time. The Humane Society is willing to work with the tribe to help them use other forms of horse population con trol, he emphasized. 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